Much has been written on Scope about the annual Big Data in Biomedicine conference, held here last week. My colleague Bruce Goldman was on the …
Category: Big data
Last day of Big Data in Biomedicine conference
Today marks the closing day of the Big Data in Biomedicine conference. With the goal of bringing together thought leaders from academia, information technology companies, …
Personal molecular profiling detects diseases earlier
Today, as the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference continues, a related story about the importance of computing across disciplines posted on the Stanford University homepage. The article …
Discussing access and transparency of big data in government
The Big Data in Biomedicine conference of 2014 continued today with discussion around how troves of information are being stored, organized, accessed and applied in …
U.S. Chief Technology Officer kicks off Big Data in Biomedicine
This morning, the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicked off at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. The School of Medicine's …
Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off tomorrow
Thought leaders and innovators from academia, information technology companies, venture capital firms and public health institutions will gather tomorrow on the Stanford campus for the annual …
New computing center at Stanford supports big data
When I went out to visit Stanford's new computing center recently, located at SLAC, I admit I wasn't sure what to expect. I mean, it's …
Professor Margot Gerritsen discusses how "algebra is not just useful, it's also inherently beautiful"
In the above video from the recent TEDxStanford event, Margot Gerritsen, PhD, associate professor of energy resources and engineering and director of the Institute for …
How efforts to mine electronic health records influence clinical care
Developing new ways to mine the vast amount of information contained in electronic medical charts holds the potential to advance diagnosis and treatment for patients. …
NIH Director: "Big Data should inspire us"
Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, is an intrepid data miner who firmly believes that analyzing vast reservoirs of public health information is the …
Chief technology officer of the United States to speak at Big Data in Biomedicine conference
Next month, hundreds of participants from academia, information technology companies, venture capital firms and public health institutions will gather on the Stanford campus at the …
Big Data in Biomedicine technical showcase to feature companies' innovations related to big data
In an effort to spark collaboration among thought leaders across industry, government and academia, Stanford's upcoming Big Data in Biomedicine conference is hosting a technical …
Euan Ashley discusses harnessing big data to drive innovation for a healthier world
Electronic patient records, clinical trials, DNA sequencing, and medical imaging and disease registries are a sampling of the sources contributing to the exponential growth of public databases …
Registration opens for Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford
Stanford researchers have used data mining methods to sift through consumers’ web search history and discover unreported side effects of drugs, pull information from patients' …
Grant from Li Ka Shing Foundation to fund big data initiative and conference at Stanford
Researchers at the School of Medicine and Oxford University are currently developing ways to mine the vast amounts of biomedical data housed in public databases …
Big data = big finds: Clinical trial for deadly lung cancer launched by Stanford study
My colleague Bruce Goldman has written elegantly here before about how large biological databases (a phenomenon commonly known as "big data") are a treasure trove …